Build high performance, cloud native data
infrastructure for machine learning, analytics
and application data workloads with MinIO
MinIO is pioneering high performance object storage. With READ/WRITE speeds of 55 GB/s and 35 GB/s on standard hardware, object storage can operate as the primary storage tier for a diverse set of workloads ranging from Spark, Presto, TensorFlow, H2O.ai as well as a replacement for Hadoop HDFS. MinIO is used as the primary storage for cloud native applications that require higher throughput and lower latency than traditional object storage can provide.
MinIO leverages the hard won knowledge of the web scalers to bring a simple scaling model to object storage. This accompanies a strongly held belief that “simple things scale.” At MinIO, scaling starts with a single cluster which can be federated with other MinIO clusters to create a global namespace, spanning multiple data centers if needed. Expansion of the namespace is possible by adding more clusters, more racks until the goal is achieved.
MinIO was built from scratch in the last four years and is native to the technologies and architectures that define the cloud. These include containerization, orchestration with Kubernetes, microservices and multi-tenancy. No other object store is more Kubernetes-friendly.
MinIO is 100% open source under the Apache V2 license. This means that MinIO’s customers are free from lock in, free to inspect, free to innovate, free to modify and free to redistribute. Indeed, MinIO powers product offerings from multiple Fortune 500 organizations. Further, the diversity of its deployments have hardened the software in ways that proprietary software can never offer.
Amazon’s S3 API is the defacto standard in the object storage world and represents the most modern storage API in the market. MinIO adopted S3 compatibility early on and was the first to extend it to support S3 Select. MinIO prides itself on the comprehensive nature of its compatibility and points to the fact that more than 750 organizations, including Microsoft Azure use MinIO’s S3 Gateway - more than the rest of the industry combined.
Minimalism is a guiding design principle at MinIO. Simplicity reduces opportunities for errors, improves uptime, delivers reliability while serving as the foundation for performance. MinIO can be installed and configured within minutes simply by downloading a single binary and then executing. The amount of configuration options and variations is kept to a minimum which results in near -zero system administration tasks and fewer paths to failures. Upgrading MinIO is done with a single command which is non-disruptive and incurs zero downtime - lowering total cost of ownership.
MinIO production deployments cover the entire globe. As the most starred and downloaded object storage server in the industry, its influence is growing daily - powered by an extraordinary community of contributors and evangelists.
